Notes for Deisgn School
Part I: on www.inmediahk.net1. Nature and Philosophy of In-MediaHK
mission statement
image spectrum:
1. industry: media, freedom of speech and expression;
2. identity: citizen reporter / citizen journalism
3. objective: cultural, social and political changes
4. atmosphere: independent, interactive, dialogical, open, diverse, reflective, critical, border-crossing, engaging and proactive.
2. our work
- ongoing
1. website publication work
2. citizen journalism
3. networking, local, chinese and overseas
4. media advocacy for freedom of speech and expression, plus related policy
5. media education
-project based work
1. bookfest 2004
2. cattle college book exhibitions 2004 and 2005
3. independent publication festival
4. "new media and social transformation" conference in december, 2005
5. new media and education workshop in december, 2005
6. new media DIY workshop in december, 2005
7. reporting from a woman's perspective, workshop (potential project)
3. Website operation
Who? what? and how?
- editors (maintence and management of the websites) 12
- columnists / citizen reporters (writing columns) 220
- register users (comments and e-newsletters) 1280
- walk in or potential users
Non-hierarchal structure (except from "focus" and "newsletters")
Future new features
Voting system (for small focus)
creative common licence
tag and track-back function
radio blog or podcast
4. Other similar website design (please comments on inmediahk website before going into the links)
Indymedia (independent, anti-wto, world-wide network)
Coolloud (citizen journalism, ngo and social movement, globalization issue)
Chattergarden (citizen journalism, interactive, dialogical)
Bayosphere (blogger journalism, interactive, social change)
Ohmynews (citizen journalism, voting system for top news, commerical model)
esouth (social movement)
twblog (blogger network and broadcast channel)
Alternet (differentiation between columnist and blogger, progressive and professional news)
oui blog (free blog cast website with focus)
vs.
empty concept
sidekick
vs.
apple daily
singtao
google news
which website do you like the best?
5. Considerations for independent media
stability over visual effects (relatively small server and no technican for maintenance)
diversity and interaction over thematic and mimimalism
RSS and tag sorting function
new members via network effects and sense of community rather than visual effects
measurement of success: no of columnist, register users, visitors, pageview, clicks; visibility in search engine, links and trackback.
technology over design
6. Inmediahk design history
Version 1 (missing history)
Version 2 (rejected becasue of colour and non-interactive)
Version 3 and 4
Final version
Part II: Design School and In-Media collaboration plan
1. Visual part
- earlier agreement:
To redesign its corporate identity
(1. logo, present logo. one suggestion: chinese name plus website address; name card version one and two; letterhead)
To design a template to be used for their e-newsletter
(because of technical considerations, the existing mass mail system cannot support graphic design; but if the design is really good we would do fundrasing to reset the mass mailing system.)
To redesign its website in order to increase usability/user-friendliness and give it a more eye-catching and energetic outlook that enhance DIY and interactivity
(as present we don't have budget to re-do our web-design, however, if the design is really good and userfriendly, we can launch a fundraising for actualizing the new design )
- new possible items:
WTO conference-workshop on "new media and social transformation" : conference kit and a citizen reporter notebook
(user friendly in size and design, cheap in production cost: HKD5-10 x 500)
Banner for the conference-workshop
Poster for the conference-workshop
These are budgeted items that would be actualized.
Conference Details
Basic informations concerning the conference and workshop
Title: New media and social transformation
Conference Date: 9-10, December, 2005
Conference themes:
Participatory journalism and independent media movement
Global citizen and new media
New media and education
Internet media in Chinese communities
Venue: To be confirmed
Workshop Date: December 3-4 and December 16-17
Workshop themes: New media and education / New Media DIY
Venue: To be confirmed
Hosting organization: Hong Kong In-Media and
Master of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University
Partnership-network organizations:
Pots magazine, Coolloud net,
Image design by
PloyU Design School
2. 3D part:
To design inexpensive items for fundraising purposes * all items designed should minimize harmful consequence to the environment and promote ethical conception of consumption.
(previous design: bags, book marks, badges)
or optional: To design devices to be used in social movements or demonstrations for the WTO
(previous design: demonstration banner)
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